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asgaard

Hi all


If I buy a home phone here in Ireland and send it to Poland will it work without any issues over there?


Thanks in advance

EdgeCase

It's very likely that it should work fine, if plugged into a standardly wired RJ11 phone socket.

Eir's network's not particularly unusual and tends to follow, broadly, open standards and whatever the ITU and ETSI are recommending. I would guess, but I can't be sure that Poland's likely to be fairly standard too.

If it's a modern cordless phone, it's very unlikely to have any issues at all.

The only way you'll find out is to plug it in and see what happens. In general PSTN interfaces are fairly similar all over the world, certainly on modern wiring and push-button phones anyway.

ED E

Itll come with a UK plug not a Type F like the recipient will need.

Why not just order an EU model from Allegro or Amazon DE?

EdgeCase

Well yeah, you’d be stuck with a power supply with a 3pin Irish plug but, that’s a minor issue really. Just whack an adaptor on the end. The voltage and electrical system is exactly the same. Poland just uses the same plugs as France. You tend to leave cordless phones plugged in permanently anyway so, it’s not a bother.

I’ve a French cordless phone plugged in here for 12 years sitting in a French power strip with an Irish plug on the other end.

You’d pick up as good or better a range of landline phones in Poland though. They’re internationally made items that tend to be the same all over Europe.

If you have a specific Irish phone that you like for some reason or you want to bring one for nostalgic reasons, it will more than likely work without any issues.

There are a few places around Europe that use unusual implementations of Caller ID using blasts o Mc “Touch tone” signals instead of a short blast of modem tones as is used here and in most places.
The UK also uses an odd implementation, involving polarity reversal of the line before sending the caller ID. This is specific to BT and was never used here.

Eir’s lines use signaling that’s absolutely ETSI standard complaint. It’s the same as France, Germany and also most VoIP adapters and also broadly similar to the US and Canada too. The equipment used in the Irish landline network has also always been very European over the decades. Our old analogue automatic network was built on Ericsson AR* crossbar systems and “code switches” and then from 1980 onwards those were replaced by digital TDM switches - Ericsson AXE and Alcatel E10 and now they’re transitioning to NGN VoIP technology behind the scenes, as the classical landline network starts to disappear and be replaced by soft switches and effectively are just an app on the IP network.

The only off spec quirk in Ireland is the ringing signal, which is the same as the UK. That sends a double beat “ring ring” electrical signal to the phone. The odd continental device may be confused by that but the other around - an Irish device on the continent (or plugged into a Virgin Media modem) poses no problems at all.

So in short, it will probably work and Irish POTS / PSTN is very standards complaint, but it’s not something I’d see any great reason to do. Poland should have tons of these things available.

Also any cordless phone sold here in Ireland is fully licensed to be used anywhere in the EU in terms of radio transmission standards and frequency allocations. Using a European cordless outside the EU can get you in trouble though as you can clash with other services. So it’s generally not advisable to move those things across the Atlantic for example.